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Zaiden vs Zaidyn

American parents have registered 11,594 Zaidens since 1880, against 1,703 Zaidyns. Zaiden is still ahead, with 466 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zaiden against Zaidyn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zaiden Zaidyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Zaiden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2000 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Zaiden had 498 and Zaidyn had 108.

Side by side

  Zaiden Zaidyn
Total US births 11,5941,703
Most in one year 978125
Babies in 2025 46680
Estimated living today 12,0001,700
Median age today 98
Peak year 20132023
Best rank 335th boys1,473rd boys
Rank in 2025 607th1,932nd
First recorded 20002005
Girls / boys 44 / 11,55031 / 1,672

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zaiden Zaidyn
England and Wales 27711

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zaiden and Zaidyn.